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Hemingway and the Black Renaissance
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Full title: | Hemingway and the Black Renaissance |
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ISBN: | 9780814252383 |
ISBN 10: | 0814252389 |
Authors: | Gary Edward Holcomb Charles Scruggs |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Edition: | 1 |
Num. pages: | 258 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2015 |
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Synopsis
Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs, explores a conspicuously overlooked topic: Hemingway's wide-ranging influence on writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present day. An observable who's who of black writers-Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Chester Himes, Alex la Guma, Derek Walcott, Gayl Jones, and more-cite Hemingway as a vital influence. This inspiration extends from style, Hemingway's minimalist art, to themes of isolation and loneliness, the dilemma of the expatriate, and the terrifying experience of living in a time of war. The relationship, nevertheless, was not unilateral, as in the case of Jean Toomer's 1923 hybrid, short-story cycle Cane, which influenced Hemingway's collage-like 1925 In Our Time.